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The Best Pumpkin Coffee Cake

The Best Pumpkin Coffee Cake – absolutely irresistible pumpkin cake! The cake is tender and moist and the crumb topping is sweet and crunchy thanks to crushed graham crackers!

You knew it will happen. After last year super successful and loved Best Apple Crumb Cake, I had to create the pumpkin version this year. It’s all you want in a pumpkin cake: the moist, tender crumb, perfect balance of spices and a crumb topping you could eat on it’s own.

This cake has it all.

And may I just add – it goes perfectly with a tall late or cappuccino OR a glass of red wine.

I don’t know why but I always pair my cakes, muffins, sweet breads or any other baked goods with something equally good to drink. With cakes it has usually been a creamy coffee drink. However, recently my Hubby brought a bottle of wine home and I just pulled this cake out of the oven. Later that day, (after all the pictures were taken) we enjoyed a few slices with the wine.

You guys, you HAVE to try this. The combination of spices from the cake and the red wine is absolutely amazing! It’s almost like spiced mulled wine but not hot. It screams fall to me and I am officially obsessed with it. So if you have guests coming and planning on serving this cake, add red wine to the menu. They will love it!

So I made two of these for a bake sale. I used disposable foil pans and they passed the toothpick test. But they both came out half-baked in the middle. I even baked them for 45 minutes. What did I do wrong?

Just had to say that this is one of my family’s favorite coffee cakes to date–the graham cracker topping truly stays crisp for days (even though it sometimes doesn’t last that long here, haha).

I shared the pin/link with my mom and she tried it and we noticed it came out differently–my printed version (from a year ago) has the brown and granulated sugar listed in the crumb topping ingredients but it looks like it’s no longer on here. I’m sure it’s just a formatting thing, but wanted to give you a head’s up so others don’t miss out on that extra sweetness in the topping. 🙂

I love everything pumpkin. I had all the ingredients on hand and I am so glad I decided to make this today. Absolutely delicious! Thank you so much for the recipe. Really love the graham cracker crumb topping.